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Originally Posted by fayax

Too costly. One time charge would've been nice but perpetual yearly fee for anything but the free version is too pricey.

The Free version has very little administrative controls.

I recently moved over from flashchat.. and now use the professional PLUS version of addonchat. This is one of the best moves i have made since starting my forum site.

the flashchat product.. while a very affordable $5 is hosted on your own server and requires a database hit each and every message... which was making my entire site drag.
add on chat however is hosted by addonchat and the chat room almost never lags unless people are posting a lot of images... ive had as many as 65 people in one room chatting up a storm and zero lag....

flashchat.. anything more than 25-30 people and it would just about shut my entire site down... 15-20 seconds to load the home page! (maybe there are some methods of speeding up flashchat that im unaware of). but my site flies since the change

the addonchat $125 per year is cheaper than purchasing an additional server just to host the flashchat.... addonchat also offers more definitive banning and is more easily customizable. yes it cost more... a lot more... but you get a lot more.
im sure the flashchat works for a lot of people especially the cost factor...heck i used it for over a year. i just think my site suffered because of it.

wanted to share my thoughts on this and thank the coders for this integration mod!